The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) will commission the USCGC Clarence Sutphin (WPC 1147), Patrol Forces Southwest Asia’s (PATFORSWA) sixth Sentinel-class cutter, into service at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York on 21 April 2022.
The last of the four Argentinian offshore patrol vessel (OPV), OPV 87 ARA Contraalmirante Cordero, was delivered to the Argentine Navy in Concarneau on 13 April.
US Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) has departed from Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division before commissioning next month.
Vertex Company has been awarded a contract to support test and evaluation aircraft for the US Navy.
Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD) has been contracted by Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) to provide essential parts for US Navy’s Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers.
Aerospace, defence and security company Babcock International has signed a contract to support the Brazilian Navy’s (Marinha do Brasil) flagship NAM Atlântico, formerly the Royal Navy platform HMS Ocean, as part of its global support program.
Defence company BAE Systems has received a $125.5 million contract from the US Navy to drydock and provide maintenance service aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2).
The first ship of the new US Navy’s Ford-class aircraft carriers, USS Gerald R. Ford, has been declared operational, according to the information provided by the ship’s program manager Capt. Brian Metcalf.
The US Navy has revealed its plans to decommission 24 ships to save $3.6 billion to boost its future fleet.
Two US Navy personnel sustained minor injuries after an accident happened aboard a nuclear ballistic missile submarine USS Louisiana (SSBN 743) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton.
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) launched the Legend-class national security cutter Calhoun (WMSL 759) on 3 April at the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division.
President of the US Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and First Lady Jill Biden, the ship sponsor, have celebrated the commissioning of the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Delaware (SSN 791).
US Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has announced that a future John Lewis-class replenishment oiler (T-AO) ship will be named USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg to honor the former Supreme Court Justice and women’s rights activist.
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) has hosted a keel-laying ceremony for the US Navy’s final Arleigh Burke-class destroyer built in the Flight IIA configuration, the future USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG 127).
